Beautiful blogpost and I wholly agree with the message of not scrapping everything going on today because you can’t see immediate growth from it.
It’s like if the USA was a house, Donald Trump and his goons are cancelling all the utilities without realising (1) that in a month the water will be shut off and the entire house will start smelling like shit.
1. or probably without caring, it’s easy to misattribute malice for stupidity when the actions being taken are THIS malicious but that’s what’s going on. I don’t necessarily think Donald Trump is this stupid but I think he is just very very malicious. Though at the end of the day it doesn’t really matter whether he is stupid or malicious or both, the consequences of what he is doing won’t change depending on intentions.
The level of trashing federal government programs that’s taken place in the last 7 months is just mind-boggling. I don’t think I’ll live long enough to see the damage undone.
There’s a dozen people with their fingers in the policy pie. End of the day, the people calling the shots don’t believe in America as it was, and are creating a new era with their application of federal power.
The end of the post-WW2 American era has arrived, and looking at the state of the opposition, it’s not coming back. The courts have essentially executed a constitutional change which will have far reaching impact.
The smart move now is to figure out what that means to you and your family. Trump is a narcissist with obvious limitations. The true threat is a more organized sociopath, backed by the rulings of a young, craven federal judiciary, and what monstrous stuff is truly possible.
Everything Nixon did is legal now, and no doubt worse stuff is happening.